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Wot I Think: SpellForce 3

SpellForce 3 might sound like the name of a magically-inclined superhero team — and it absolutely should be — but it s actually a chimera, a beast created by smashing together an isometric RPG and an RTS. You ve got your jolly old fantasy adventures, pilfering dungeons and beating up hardworking goblins, and then you ve got outposts to build, trees to chop down and troops to train. Considered individually, neither layer is going to set the world on fire, but SpellForce 3 is the poster child for being more than the sum of its parts.

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